| 词汇 | needle in a haystack |
| 释义 | Idiom needle in a haystack something extremely hard to find.It's pretty much a needle in a haystack because these fish are extremely hard to find. Usage notes: also used in the forms look for a needle in a haystack and find a needle in a haystack Etymology: based on the idea that it is to almost impossible to find a thin sewing needle in a haystack (= a very tall pile of dried grass) needle in a haystackSomething that is very difficult to locate. Trying to find my contact lens on the floor was like looking for a needle in a haystack. needle in a haystackAn item that is very hard or impossible to locate, as in Looking for that screw in Dean's workshop amounts to looking for a needle in a haystack. Originating in the early 1500s, with meadow instead of haystack, this metaphor exists in many other languages as well. a needle in a haystacksomething that is almost impossible to find because it is concealed by so many other similar things. 2002 New York Times Magazine Terrorists don't fit a consistent profile: you're looking for a needle in a haystack, but the color and shape of the needle keep changing. needle in a haystack, (like finding) aAn item that is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to find. This term dates from the sixteenth century, although “haystack” at first appeared as “meadow” (in Sir Thomas More’s Works, 1532), “bottle of hay” (Robert Greene, 1592), or “load of hay” (John Taylor, 1619). The same metaphor exists in numerous languages. |
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